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    Academic Computing Unit 2015-2016 Annual Report
    (2016-09-16) Barfi-Adomako, O.; Agbodza, H.A.
    The Academic Computing Unit (ACU) under the University of Ghana Computing Systems (UGCS) is mandated to design, adapt, promote, and implement industry best practices for e-learning, research support, library systems and institutional repository. It is also expected to monitor academic technology developments and trends at other leading institutions and advise management appropriately. During the year under review, the unit initiated and partnered with other units in UGCS to execute a number of projects. On the University front, the ACU collaborated with the Balme Library and University Archives in the areas of digitization, preservation, institutional repository and records management. The Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID) awarded two (2) grants to the Unit to support its core functions in partnership with the University Archives and Balme Library. The Unit played a key role in the implementation of the University of Ghana Enterprise Content Management and Intranet Portal project which seeks to digitize records and automate the University’s manual workflows. The renovation of the Ghana-Korea Information Access Center which involved the upgrading of IT Equipment and interior decoration was supervised by the staff of ACU. The Unit’s activities for 2015-2016 academic year are presented.
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    Report on a Three-day Workshop on Records Management, Digitisation, and Institutional Repository (IR)
    (2015-07-08) Barfi-Adomako, O.; Kwadzo, G.
    A year ago a three-day training workshop on digitization was held. This was to introduce participants to the various aspects of digitization and also to create awareness about the various digitisation initiatives in the University. Participants were excited about the training and recommended that a hands-on workshop be held for them so that they could also contribute to the project. It was based on this recommendation that this second workshop was organized. This second workshop was organized from 8th to 10th April, 2015at the Ghana-Korea Information Access Centre (IAC) in the Balme Library, University of Ghana (UG), Legon.
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    Local Preservation of a Global Heritage, International Co-operation and the Digitization of Written and Non-Written Material at the University of Ghana, Legon
    (2015-07-08) Barfi-Adomako, O.; Opoku-Boateng, J.
    Since the 16th century Africa and in particular today’s Ghana has with an ever increasing speed become entrenched into a global network of intellectual, commercial and technological exchange, whose ambivalent nature also reflects in the very state and nature of the documents, that this history of incorporation has left behind. In this joint presentation an Archivist and Systems Librarian from the University of Ghana will share their experiences during the digitized of historical material with a special emphasis on the amount, prospects and challenges of international co-operation that has been involved in its preservation. While the digitization of rare and hitherto unavailable documents on Dutch economic activities in the Gold Coast is executed by both the Balme Library and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) with partial funding from the Dutch Embassy; a precious post- and pre-independence collection of traditional music by J. H. Kwabena Nketia who taught as the first major African Musicologist in USA is currently been digitized in a joint effort of Ghanaian and American teams from Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana and New York University’s Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) under Making African Academic Resources Accessible or MAARA project. The different nature of these historical sources (written and paper-based vs. audiovisual media) finally adds yet another comparative dimension to this lecture: In spite of various overarching similarities each of these collections touches upon the important issue of international cooperation and accessibility of the preserved material in its own peculiar way.